PowerGame


 * POWER GAME TECH 1 ** **Level 1 **

**Level 2 **  **Level 3 **  **Level 4 **  **Level 5 **  ===**Area of Interaction: Environments ** === ===**Significant Concepts: Basic video programming and the appeal of virtual environments. ** === ===<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19px;">Unit Question: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19px;">What is the appeal of a virtual environment? ** ===

===<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19px;">REQUIREMENTS: ** ===
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19px; line-height: 23px;">Take the Power Game Test on Skyward.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19px; line-height: 23px;">Create a new page on your wiki. Name it "Power Game".
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19px; line-height: 23px;">Copy and Paste this page onto your wikispace.
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19px; line-height: 23px;">Create your own video game using Power Game.
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19px; line-height: 23px;">You must work on this video game for 7 days. You should add new elements to your game every day!
 * 6) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19px; line-height: 23px;">Make at least 5 levels on your video game. Your width for each level should be at least 2600.
 * 7) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19px; line-height: 23px;">Take one picture of each of your levels. You should have at least 5 pictures.
 * 8) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19px; line-height: 23px;">Name all of your pictures, "Power Game 1", Power Game 2", Power Game 3", and "Power Game 4".
 * 9) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19px; line-height: 23px;">Upload all of your pictures onto your wikispace.


 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">INVESTIGATE **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">1. Take the Power Game Test on <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Skyward] .**
 * 2. ****<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">How does the Design Cycle apply to the real world? You can go through the Design Cycle in everyday life to accomplish any project or task that needs to get done. **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">3. Answer the Design Brief questions below: **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 22px; line-height: 32px;">How has virtual environments changed our society? It has made us smarter and we have been able to learn more and come along way. We have come along way and it makes us smarter because people are always working towards creating more and more virtual environments and in the process they learn more and more and make new discoveries.
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 22px; line-height: 32px;">How has technology impacted our environment? As I have already mentioned, It makes us smarter and it usually also makes our lives easier because now-a-days we can use technology to complete almost any task.
 * **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">What is the appeal of a virtual environment? The appeal of a virtual environment is that it makes our lives easier and we can get things done more quickly. **
 * **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">What are environments? Environments are anything that you can be surrounded in (place). Somewhere where you can be. Anywhere where you ARE **
 * **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">What are the requirements of this assignment? The requirements are up above in the black text. **


 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">PLAN **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Follow the plan I outlined below: **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Day 1: Skyward Test, Design Folder on your wikispace, answer the Investigate and Plan sections. **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Day 2: Finish Skyward Test, Investigate, and Plan sections. Start Power Game. **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Day 3: Complete first level. Don't forget that the width for each level needs to be at least 2600. **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Day 4: Complete second level. **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Day 5: Complete third level. **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Day 6: Complete fourth level. **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Day 7: Complete 5th level and the entire Design Folder, including uploading pictures on your wikispace. **


 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">CREATE **
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">**<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Be nice to my software and computer. **
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">**<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Follow the steps of the plan I made you for you! **
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">**<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Pay attention to the quality of your work! **
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">**<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Don't be a whiny baby that I have to babysit! **


 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">EVALUATE **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">4. Did you follow the plan I made for you? Yes we did. **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">5. Does your game meet all the requirements? Yes it does. **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">6. How could you improve your game? We could have made it harder to complete. **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">7. Share your game with at least one friend. What did he/she like about your game? Lucas thought that it was pretty fun but a little too easy. **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">8. Reflect on all the steps of the Design Cycle. What did you do well? What do you need to improve? Answer both questions below! **
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">**<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Investigate: We noticed that you had to have two blocks worth to be able to stand. **
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">**<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Plan: We discussed what we wanted on each level to look like. **
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">**<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Create: We created each level and made it look like we planned it. **
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">**<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Evaluate: We played each level and evaluated how it worked, if we needed to fix something then we did. **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">15. Were you responsible in using the software and computer? Yes **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">16. What is the appeal of a virtual environment? The appeal of a virtual environment is that there are somethings that are impossible in real life so you get to experience new things. **


 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">17. What problems did you have using power game? Setting the controls for the game. **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">18. What did you like the least about power game? You can't crouch down. **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">19. What did you like the best about power game? Just the feeling of actually MAKING our own video game. **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">20. What grade do you deserve on this project? (1 - 6) 5 **

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 30px;">**THIS IS HOW YOU WILL RECEIVE YOUR LETTER GRADE:**
 * 1) <span style="color: #ff6400; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19px; line-height: 23px;">Attitude = +20
 * 2) <span style="color: #ff6400; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19px; line-height: 23px;">Followed the Design Cycle = +30
 * 3) <span style="color: #ff6400; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19px; line-height: 23px;">Quality (5 Levels) = +50
 * 4) <span style="color: #ff6400; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19px; line-height: 23px;">TOTAL = 100 POINTS